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Hi Bold Bakers!
Did you know you could make your own Homemade Sprinkles?
When I made my own Homemade Fondant I ended up with leftovers that I didn’t want to waste. So I colored it, rolled it out and made my own Homemade Sprinkles, it was that easy! Learn how in the video and post below.
I couldn’t waste all of this fondant so I looked around online to see what I could do with it. And that is when I discovered how to make Homemade Sprinkles!
Color and shape the fondant any color you want depending on your baking project. Maybe you just want some pink sprinkles for a baby shower? Then you can create different shades of pink in cute shapes.
I rolled out all of my fondant and cut it into sprinkles with a simple piping tip, because even if I don’t need it now I have it on hand for any “Cake Emergency” where I need a splash of elegance and color in a hurry. Best thing is they will last for months in an airtight container.
Every cake needs sprinkles. They elevate the look of your cake, add color and always make desserts automatically look better.
I have expressed before that I am not a great cake decorator so I like to use little tricks to get big results, like using a butter knife to decorate my Funfetti Cake cake or the back of a spoon to decorate my Best Ever Chocolate Cake. Adding these Sprinkles on top transformed my dessert from a regular cake to a cake that screams celebration!
The best thing is you can make the color you want for your desserts and the exact shapes you need. It’s great to tell people you made your cake from scratch, including the sprinkles! I mean, who does that? We do on Bigger Bolder Baking! 🙂
Try These Recipes!
Watch The Recipe Video!
Homemade Sprinkles
Ingredients
- Left over scraps of Fondant
- Food dye if you wish to color the fondant
Instructions
- If you want colored sprinkles add a little bit of food coloring using a tooth pick to your soft fondant.
- Knead the fondant on the counter to work the color through evenly
- on a counter dusted with icing sugar, roll out your scraps of fondant thin
- Using a piping nozzle cut out your sprinkles. Let them build up in the nozzle before tipping them out.
- Use whatever size piping nozzle you wish
- Use different cutters and sizes to customize your sprinkles
- Leave the sprinkles on a tray to dry out for a few hours
- Store in an air tight container at room temperature for months.
Gemma, thank you for these instructions! A Google search brought me here and I’m glad it did. Have you baked these sprinkles into cookies? I’m curious how they affect the texture. The taste will be amazing no doubt. I have almost all of the LorAnn candy oils and use those for royal icing so I think they’d make great sprinkle flavorings too. It might be worth making a bunch of small batches in single flavors/colors to complement each other, like dark pink strawberry, red raspberry, blue blueberry, dark purple blackberry, maroon cherry, etc. I think this will be my gingerbread… Read more »
WOW Gemma!
I did not know you’ve got a sprinkle recipe! I’am going to try this tomorrow.
Do you think this would work in you mug cakes with the sprinkles in if you don’t have store bought?
I try to make one of your recipes each day.
♥ Your Bold Baker.
Just made these for an upcoming unicorn themed birthday , thank you so much gemma always the best
hello, am new here from Nigeria, just to appreciate you.
Thank you for impacting knowledge .
Thank you Gemma for teach how to make own beautiful sprinkles ❤️❤️
I love your videos! I love to watch you bake and have watched a TON of your videos when we just found you out a few weeks ago! Definitely keep coming up with those AWESOME recipes!
I cannot wait to try this, thank you.
Brilliant, Irish clever girl, wish I’d thought of it when my kids were little. Now they’ve got kids of their own. Trouble is with this covid lockdown I never see them. So I’ll bake and make your sprinkles for someone else’s grandkids. Thanks heaps Honey Bunch. Much appreciated. ????????????
Do these sprinkles dry hard or stay soft? I never worked with fondant. Thanks
Can I use the marshmallow fondant to make the sprinkles and will the marshmallow fondant dry out as well as regular fondant?